Despair after 200-year-old ‘grandmother’ tree toppled for Trump’s border wall: ‘It crushes your heart’
Then a tense standoff with US border patrol came to a head A 200-year-old cottonwood tree near the US-Mexico border, known as the “grandmother”, has been…
The Guardian reports: Then a tense standoff with US border patrol came to a head A 200-year-old cottonwood tree near the US-Mexico border, known as the “grandmother”, has been destroyed to make way for the construction of Donald Trump’s border wall, despite a months-long effort by protesters trying to save it.
Protesters spent months occupying an ancient cottonwood. The group remained there for more than 70 days.
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